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Norovirus, a Formidable and Underappreciated Hazard: What Nurses Need to Know

AJN Off the Charts

Given this background about norovirus, there are specific actions that nurses can take to improve prevention and response: Promptly report gastrointestinal symptoms experienced by patients to the infection prevention and control department and partner to minimize risk to other patients and health care personnel.

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Compassionate Care: 4 Ways Nurses Can Improve Patient Care

Daily Nurse

Compassion is more than being kind to patients or checking in regularly with folks with acute illnesses. Genuine compassion requires forward-thinking and careful planning. However, pursuing specialized credentials and further education is an excellent way for healthcare professionals to improve patient care quality.

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My year as a Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Leadership Scholar

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog is written Ellen Edwards (@EllenCEdwards), Senior Practice Educator – Clinical Support Desk, Welsh Ambulance Service. I was required to a present a quality improvement project, that I would like to undertake, to a panel of senior leaders and other applicants. A few months later the interview invite landed in my inbox.

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Future-Proofing Healthcare: The Unexpected Tools Enhancing Nurse Efficiency

Daily Nurse

It’s common for nurses to have to juggle heavy workloads, complex patient needs, and time-intensive tasks every day they clock in. These challenges put pressure on efficiency and patient care quality. These innovations enhance efficiency, improve safety, and free up time for what matters most: patient care.

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3 Ways Nurses Can Better Support Their Autistic Patients

Daily Nurse

Learn About the Different Ways Autism Presents Many people think that autism exists on a straight line that places you either ‘more or less’ autistic. It can be difficult to know what is appropriate or not when interacting with autistic patients. Instead, autism is a spectrum with a range of strengths and challenges.

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Nursing Before Politics

Daily Nurse

In a time when the political divide among various individuals and groups may be wider and deeper than ever beforewhat some might call a political chasmone thing is clear: those of us involved in patient care must never allow politics to interfere with our ability to provide the best possible service.

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Lawsuits That Don’t Involve Patient Care Can Still Involve Nurses

Nurse.com

Most of my blogs over the years have examined conduct directly related to nursing practice and focused on nurses who have been named in professional negligence lawsuits or who were called as expert witnesses. But sometimes nurses have a role in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with patient care, as the following case illustrates.